San Mateo: Panel discussion on interviewing and hiring @ Meta

This week's meetup will be hosted at Meta in San Mateo. Meta produced the first augmented-reality headset to market, and the Meta 2 was deemed the best AR headset of 2017 by Next Reality (https://next.reality.news/news/best-augmented-reality-2017-0181868/). And they're hiring!

Meta welcomes Women Who Code and ACCU Bay Area to a panel discussion of technology hiring and interviewing practices. The panelists will include hiring managers and recruiters from Google, Smartcar, Minted, and our host, Meta.

Before the panel, Meta will offer first-come-first-served demonstrations of its augmented-reality headset, and Meta's hiring managers will lead breakout round-table discussions of special topics such as product management and data analytics.

6 to 8 pm: Networking and registration

• Salad, finger foods, soft drinks, and wine
• Demos of Meta's AR headset

Also 6 to 8 pm: Special skills round tables

• Product Management (Cecelia Abadie, Meta's Director of Product Management)
• Quality Assurance (Hedeih Sanglagi, Meta's Manager of QA)
• Apps, Services, and Platform (Nathaniel Clinger, Meta's Director of Workspace)
• The Meta SDK (Thomas O'Rourke, Meta's Senior Director of SDK)
• Analytics and Data (Stefano Baldassi, Meta's Senior Director of Analytics and Neuroscience)

8 to 9:30 pm: Panel discussion on interviewing and hiring, moderated by Maggie Elkin, Meta's Director of HR

The panelists will include:

• Kari Pulli, CTO, Meta
• Rangoli Sharan, Director of Engineering (e-Commerce), Minted
• Georges Scheider, Senior Program Manager, Google
• Ramya Somaskandan, Engineering Manager, Smartcar

Our panel will discuss current trends in software hiring and recruiting, with a focus on C and C++ roles. For aspiring candidates: What subject matter is most important to hiring managers? Are old-school data structures and algorithms still the gold standard? And for interviewers: What's the difference between a candidate studying for an interview and "faking it"? How do you change your interviewing and hiring policies in step with the needs of your engineering organization?

Please feel free to email a.pagin@metavision.com with your own questions for the panel.